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0. H. PERKINS. HORSESHOE BLANK AND BLANK BAR.

Patented Mar. 24, 1891.

| us co, Fnoro-Lhwo WASHINGTON n c turns STATES PATENT CHARLES HENRY PERKINS, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE RHODE ISLAND HORSE SHOE COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

HORSESHOE-BLANK AND BLANK-BAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,056, dated March 24, 1891.

Application died October 2, 1890.

T0 00% whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, CHARLES HENRY PER- KINS, of the city and county of Providence, and State of Rhode Island, have invented new and useful Improvements in Horseshoe- Blanks and Blank-Bars; and I do hereby declare that the following specification, taken in connection with the drawings furnished and forming a part of the same, is a clear, true, and complete description of my invention.

My novel blank-bars have been devised with special reference to use in making plain or ordinary toe-weighted horseshoes. Other novel blank-bars have been devised by me for the same purpose, and they have been made the subject of a separate application for Letters Patent. (See Serial No. 366,534.) Said other blank-bars afford blanks which are tapered from the toe portion toward the two heel portions, because of separating each blank from the laterally adjacent blanks on two lines inclined or diagonal to the longitudinal center of each blank.

The novel blank-bar of this application affords blanks somewhat resembling the others referred to; but the doubly-tapered characteristic in each blank is due to a single cut on an inclined or diagonal line, said out resulting in forming one edge of a tapered end at one side of the central or toe portion of the blank, the other inclined edge of the same end beingapart of one of the original straight edges of the bar.

The blanks separately considered are novel, in that both of the edges of each blankfrom the toe portion to both ends or heel portions are inclined to the longitudinal center of the blank, as distinguished from having one straight edge, as inmy said other forms of blank, and the blank-bar containing said bars is a radical novelty, in that, although-it is in substance a double blank-bar, there are nail-creases near one edgeand parallel therewith and other intervening nail-scores which are diagonally arranged, as distinguished from having nail-scores near both edges and parallel therewith.

Referring to the drawings, Figure 1, in top view and several sections, illustrates one of my novel blank-bars. Fig. 2 illustrates a blank as when out from said bar. Fig. 3 illustrates a plain toe-weighted horseshoe as Serial No. 366,862- (No model.)

produced from said blank, the dotted lines at the heels indicating the presence of metal, which, being left in the blank, may be developed into heel-calks.

The b1ank-bar A is a straight-edged double blank-bar; but it is unlike any other bar known to me, in that its two series of nailscores are so located or arranged with reference to each other that simple diagonal cuts from edge to edge of the bar will afford toeweighted horseshoe-blanks a, having a wide toe portion a, and narrow ends or heel portions a In one series the nail-scores b are in line with each other and parallel with one edge of the bar, and in the other series the nail-scores b are alternated with the others at proper intervals and are parallel with each other; but each score I) is diagonal to or inclined with relation to the nail-score b in the same blank, or, in other words, said scores I) are parallel with the parting-lines on which the blanks are to be separated. For indicating the diagonal parting lines no more than the merest depressions, as at c,

will ever be required. Inasmuch as the scores I) are always correctly located, they may be relied upon as gage-marks, the parting-line being always closely adjacent thereto.

It will be seen that the ends of each blank terminate in a wedge-shaped point, which must either be clipped 01f for squaring up the heels of a shoe or the tip may be all or in part developed into heel-calks, as is desirable in winter shoes.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A toe-weighted horseshoe-blank havingboth of its edges inclined from the center toward its ends, and having nail-scores which are inclined with reference to each other but are parallel with the adjacent edge of the blank.

2. A blank-bar scored on one side adjacent to one edge, and also scored at intervals diagonally across the bar, substantially as described, said bar being divisible on diagonal lines for producing blanks for toe-weighted horseshoes.

CHARLES HENRY PERKINS.

Witnesses:

R. W. OoMsTooK, G. L. BOWEN. 

